Word: garett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sides throughout this financial feud, and in one Directors' meeting Mr. Fish struck and floored J. T. Harahan, who had succeeded him as President of the Illinois Central. A romantic and spirited, if not entirely accurate, narrative of the Harriman-Fish embroglio has recently been written by Garet Garett in his latest novel, The Driver. Mr. Fish was a railroad executive of the old order, rough and ready in speech, cautious in administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky...